US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to testify before Congress on the attack on their consulate in Benghazi, Libya which left its ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead on September 11, 2012. She is also expected to appear before the House foreign affairs committee on January 23. ...
07:30 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on December 31. A report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the September 11 attacks on the US mission and a nearby CIA annex, in which the US ambassador to Libya and three...
11:50 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Benghazi: The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the US ambassador, was an organised two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and US security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday. Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected...
06:19 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Washington: The US has launched a massive probe, involving several agencies including the FBI, to find out who was behind the attack on its Consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya. State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that investigation had begun and till then it would be better to refrain from speculating any possible involvement of al Qaeda or its affiliated...
01:43 AM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: Probably just the title of the film by Sam Bacile was competent enough to make people angry in Libya, because its a bad film by any standard. The badly made film tries to describe the Prophet Mohammad as a womaniser and as someone who approved of child sexual abuse. The protesters were hit by such a rage that their violent attack took the life of the US ambassador...
03:22 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: The attack that killed the US ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, may have been planned and organised in advance, US government officials said on Wednesday. The officials said there were indications that members of a militant faction calling itself Ansar al Sharia - which translates as Supporters of Islamic Law - may have been involved in organizing the attack on the US Consulate in Libya's...
06:13 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Beirut: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the killing of American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff in a rocket attack in Benghazi in Libya. Confirming that the envoy was killed in the attack in Libya, Obama said, "US opposes senseless violence that killed that US diplomat." Reacting to the killing of the envoy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the attack "should shock the conscience...
05:57 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Beirut: The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday night that targeted his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said on Wednesday. "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters. Asked about the deaths, a US Embassy employee in Tripoli...
03:14 PM, Sep 12, 2012
